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History is about change. Studying the past reveals the continuing, fundamental changeability of our world, and of the many ways we perceive, adapt to, and often shape change. Studying the past thus lets us explore how and why things developed as they did; it also helps us see the present differently, and imagine different futures.

History also reveals an exhilarating variety of social worlds – many of them radically, exotically different from our own, even as they are fully comprehensible as human.

Learn from award-winning professors

Professors in the History Department will inspire you to discover the rich variety of these changes, while helping you develop the tools to understand, analyze, and assess their many aspects, experiences, and interpretations. Your understanding and assessment of these factors will in turn inform and shape your own arguments about history. As historians must be able to communicate such analyses and arguments clearly and convincingly, Dalhousie's History faculty are especially committed to teaching our students the necessary skills – in both written and oral expression – to make their research results accessible, clear and persuasive.

The job market after studying History

As a history major, the world is your oyster and you can consider a multitude of careers.

Your degree in history can lead to a career as an educator, researcher, communicator or editor, information manager, advocate, or even a businessperson.